Genre:
Horror
Dark Fantasy

Blurb/Logline
When an ancient threat emerges to destroy a family of vampires, Alexander, The Dragon Slayer--a medieval Russian vampire--sends word to Jonathan, his grandson-by-blood.  His letters come at a drastic time.  Jason, the link between Alexander and his grandson, has recently been granted power beyond his years.  Alexander, no stranger to power himself, sends advice that might save them, but to no avail, as the ancients known as The Nine destroy the ageless leader and abduct Jason and Jonathan.  With their very eternal existence in peril, Jonathan is forced to step up to grab the reigns of leadership.  But he'll have to use all the lessons and legacies of those who have come before him to succeed.

The question is, can he?  And will he be in time?

Genre:
Action-Adventure
Suspense
Political Intrigue
Contemporary Romance

Blurb/Logline

Paula is young, intelligent, and hauntingly beautiful--a woman of strong will and unbreakable spirit.  Restless and eager for adventure, she and her husband strike out for Afghanistan, where they have been enlisted to help rebuild the new democratic regime.  Paula wants a different life for the two of them: a renewed love for her husband and a renewed sense of well-being for herself.  But what she finds are turmoil and upheaval. 

As the countryside around her erupts into guerrilla warfare, her devotion to her husband is challenged by his need for drugs until finally she meets a passionate Afghan rebel willing to help.  But his help proves futile, driving Paula further into desperation until her rebel companion steps in to save her from the forces of pending doom.   

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Genre:
Action-Adventure
Suspense
Political Intrigue

Contemporary Romance

Blurb/Logline

This gripping account of a young American woman and her Afghan-born lover  takes on new and ominous overtones when Paula suddenly finds herself attacked in her home by two foreign nationals.  When she learns that Shadar has disappeared on his way back to her from Hong Kong, she sets out to find him.  Along the way, she uncovers a sordid trail of human bondage, gun smuggling, and Al Qaeda terrorists.  All hope nearly melts away in a deadly fire-fight with outlaw Islamicists. 

When Sunni anarchist Ali Syndar Bhutto captures Paula as she attempts to escape into the night, his first thought is to kill her to get even with Shadar.  But his second thought is far more sinister…and perverted.  Will Paula manage to escape, and will she ever reunite with her lost lover? 

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Genre:
Action-Adventure
Suspense
Political Intrigue

Contemporary Romance
 
Blurb/Logline

A cozy night at the opera turns deadly as Paula and her lover Dali stand by helplessly.  Their investigation into the death of Dali’s closest friend soon leads them to Kabul, where Dali is charged with the task of helping set up the underground Iraqi Resistance Movement to ferret out and destroy opponents of Coalition Forces and the newly elected Iraqi Free Parliament.  From there, they wend their way to the Tigris, when Dali suddenly disappears. 

Fearing the worst, Paula tries desperately to contact the underground and finally manages to reach the head of the movement ... on the wrong side!  As rogue Iranian Republican Guard troops and the dreaded Turkish secret police close in on her, she faces the dilemma of her life: should she flee ... or stay and fight against all odds in the hopes of finding her lover? 

Genre:
Fantasy
Action-Adventure

Blurb/Logline
An untamed precipice – suitable only for birds of prey – becomes the unlikely means for human redemption as rebellious, unsavory elements of The Sorcerer’s Council of Mongstrom devises a far-reaching conspiracy for domination and immortality in hopes of thwarting prophecy on Earth.

After evoking the heinous wrath of a crotchety old sorcerer, the Fledgling World of Men are faced with a calamitous future of enslavement and worse unless they can find the one person who heard the pronouncement of the curse, the one who knows how to remove it. Left with a burgeoning mystery, very few clues, and little hope for the future, a hearty but reluctant band of four adventurers sets out into the unknown, searching desperately and facing daunting challenges and constant peril along the road to the nether region. Little did they know, their quest was only the beginning….

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Crossing Realms

Genre:
Fantasy
Action-Adventure

Blurb/Logline  Now here’s a cast of characters: A disgruntled, former FBI agent turned cantankerous, scotch-swilling gumshoe, his deceased friend’s widow – a warrior monk, a Jewish boy – and the unlikeliest of pairings, an underworld demoness plagued with life-defining issues and a beleaguered, earthbound angel on the arduous path to heavenly redemption.

Bound as one, the misfits find themselves in a perilous struggle against nuances of good and evil to thwart Satan’s boldest, most ruthless plan yet to usurp the world of men in the 20th Century.

Genre:
Chick Lit
Woman's

Blurb/Logline
On the verge of an emotional breakdown, Annie Delaney seeks professional help.  Her search for inner peace and self-worth begins with the unveiling of a secret.  Annie has hidden from reality for more than two decades.  Now the man she once loved and trusted like a brother is dead--but so is her rapist.  While Annie searches for answers and a way to fill the emptiness, she is oblivious to the dangers ahead.  Hate explodes into the ultimate act of violence: someone had to die.

"This is Dennis Hopper in Doublecrossed times ten, the scenes of Block being tortured

in a Mexican jail are absolutely haunting.  It's a sure winner at the book stores,

as well as at the box office." - Don Bacue, Editor-in-Chief, International Features Syndicate

*Under Review

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The Secret Arroyo

Genre:
Western

Blurb/Logline
As an Army scout, Wade Hawkins learned his job well—he is the best tracker west of the Missouri.  It is a skill that comes in handy, for he’ll need all of his wiles to overtake the murderous flesh-traders who abducted his Choctaw wife from their home several days before.  As he closes in on her captors, he finds more than he bargained for: a troop of ruthless, bloodthirsty ex-rangers with plenty of fire power and 16 Indian women—captive squaws—on their hands.  But was Tantien one of them?

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Genre:
Anthology of Chicago-based Short Stories
 
Blurb/Logline
When author/editor D. J. Herda left Chicago, he took a big part of the city with him.  Now he has unleashed it in all its wild-and-wooly, sexually charged, hit-and-hit-harder glory.  These tales are hauntingly vivid, running the gamut from Crime and Punishment to Coming-of-Age in the Windy City. 

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Places Where I've Done Time, Too

Blurb/Logline
Author D. J. Herda has traveled the world several times over, first as a professional syndicated travel writer and then as a working photojournalist.  Here he assembles the most poignant, touching, uproarious, and human of all of the stories he has amassed from the different places where he’s done time.

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For Cat's Sake and Other Bizarre Tales from Beyond the Grave

Blurb/Logline
Touching, humorous, ethereal, and uplifting tales about all kinds and manner of animals the author has known intimately through his life by the author whom some people call “the best short-story teller working today.” 

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Blurb/Logline
From the master teller of short stories, here are the best mystery and suspense tales with just a touch of the supernatural thrown in for good measure.

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Blurb/Logline
When a man makes a pact with the devil, he does so not in exchange for untold wealth, health, love, or longevity, but in order to stimulate his mind (he loathes boredom and despises boring people).  The devil agrees to grant him the intelligence to survive in a hostile world, and soon the man stands in the very shadow of God, presiding over decisions that spell life and death for virtually every human being on the face of Mother Earth.

But “mother” soon turns to “muthah” as Markinson fails to anticipate his still human weaknesses and eventually falls in lust bordering on love.  The only problem: the woman is a Central European Command (CEC) operative who has been assigned to paranormal investigations into terrorist links.  When she learns from her lover who he really is and where he gets his power—and, worse, that he knows who she really is--she sets out to do the only thing her conscience will allow her to do.  She must destroy him, even if it means making her own pact with the devil to do so!

*Under Review

Genre:
Detective

The story of a hard-boiled she-male undercover cop with a roving eye and a serious attitude who has a hard time staying one jump ahead of the law.

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Genre:
Erotica
Suspense

Blurb/Logline
Recent widower Richard Bass and his teenage daughter discover that living in a rambling home has its drawbacks.  But when they take in boarder Alicia Desiree, they soon learn that nothing is as it first appears--absolutely nothing!

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Blurb/Logline
As the Roaring Twenties come to an end, a new age of enlightenment greets the world.  Leading the charge is Dorothy Parker in her endless search for love, sex, and notoriety.  From her steamy back-room sexcapades with some of Hollywood’s sexiest stars and her political barnstorming for the acquittal of Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti to her death among the ashes of antiquity, her story unfolds with all of the delicate satire of a five-pound mallet.

*Under Review

Blurb/Logline
In the mountains of northern Colorado, a young couple live life to the fullest, sharing their good fortune, drugs, and mates with their New Age friends.  Shortly after they erect a tee-pee several hundred yards from their log cabin home, they take in a tenant who has just suffered a painful divorce.  When Donnelly’s golden retriever trots down to an all-night Bachanalian feast, he follows along to bring the dog home.  But his hosts insist that he join in the fun. 

When the next morning a Wiccan witch disappears, the dog locates her face-down in a mountain stream just behind the tee-pee with her throat ripped open.  Before long, other guests suffer similar fates, and Greg and DeeAnn begin to wonder if their decision to take in a renter was such a good idea after all.  When they approach Donnelly to suggest that he move out, he disappears suddenly, leaving only his dog behind.  Or, they wonder, did he?

Genre:
Suspense

Blurb/Logline
The tell-all story of a married Catholic priest out to avenge his wife's murder; but just how deeply into the archdiocese hierarchy will he have to dig and what shocking discoveries will he make along the way?

Blurb/Logline
A lawman from Montana takes off his badge to avenge the murder of his wife and four children and ends up on the wrong end of a Confederate scouting party’s rope.

Blurb/Logline
A shiftless Colorado con man uses his wits to steal a fortune from the territory's most notorious gunman and, while he's at it, sets his sights on the guy's gal for good measure.

Jennex, Steve
"The Old Spies Club" Series
Bk. 1 - The Old Spies Club

Genre:
Action/Adventure
Suspense
Mainstream/Contemporary

Blurb/Logline
When a private jet crashes in the mountainous wilds of Colombia's Los Katios Park, wheels are set in motion to reassemble a veteran team of CIA field agents to find the wreckage and one important passenger. Paired with feuding counterparts from the Drug Enforcement Agency, they must contend with the extreme terrain, rival paramilitary soldiers and volatile rain forest natives, all the while asking themselves Does the Old Spies Club still have what it takes to get the job done?

Bk. 2 - Reverb

Blurb/Logline
Forced from his comfy retirement by the discovery of a corpse floating off the coast of the Dominican Republic, former CIA operative Frank Spezzio decides to follow the trail of clues left behind by the drowned sailor.  His chase leads him from the street festivals and naval bases of Puerto Rico to the steamy jungles of the Dominican Republic.  Along the way, as he uncovers the impact of the U.S. military machine on fragile island ecosystems, he ultimately discovers within himself the things that really matter.

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On Assignment

Genre:
Action/Adventure
Suspense
Mainstream/Contemporary

Blurb/Logline
It was supposed to be a dream job: a couple of weeks in the Caribbean, jiggling bikinis and pina coladas, looking for a news correspondent gone missing.  But for private investigator Marty Kowlanko, what initially seemed like a paid vacation quickly spirals into a conspiracy of murder, corrupt politicians, and sleazy big business.  Out of his element, Marty has to pull things together before time runs out.

*Under Review

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The King of Maicao

Genre:
Action/Adventure
Suspense
Mainstream/Contemporary

Blurb/Logline
Armed with little more than a Spanish-English dictionary, mining engineer Ben Murdock travels to the savanna of Colombia to restore the operations of his company’s flagging coal mine.  Plunged into a violent confrontation between corrupt government troops, left-wing rebels and desperate natives, Murdock finds refuge in the arms of a young woman--a free-spirited Colombian reactionary.  His back to the wall, he has to question his values and whether he can trust the motives of his new love.

Kaplan, Bruce
Seeds

Genre:
Horror
Thriller
Mystery

Blurb/Logline

The corpses pile up as an unspeakable terror stalks a quiet seaside town.  Does a strange child hold the secret behind death, blackmail, and corruption?  Gripping, non-stop horror from start to finish.

Kinnard, Jeremy
Why I Did What I Did Not Do by O. J. Simpson

Genre:
Humor
Mainstream/Contemporary
Illustrated
Gift

Blurb/Logline  When O.J. Simpson unwillingly retires to a reclusive life after the infamous homicide scandal, he sets out to win back his legacy and his fans.  In a parody of If I Did It, he showcases his charisma and tries to resurrect his innocent role model persona while searching for the real killer.  But can he redeem himself while arrogantly continuing to contradict himself…and will anyone actually believe him?
 

Lee, Lissa
Empress of Gold Mountain

Genre:
Women's
Historical Romance
Ethnic

Blurb/Logline
Madam Ah Toy, San Francisco’s first Chinese “lady of joy,” accumulated unprecedented wealth given her circumstances.  What if she had borne a daughter – would she have subjected the child to her same fate, with its attendant power as well as perils, or would she have challenged her daughter’s destiny at a time when the options were either to become servant... or a prostitute?  Lin, raised by a Reverend and his wife, sets out to find her birth mother against their wishes.  Along her journey, she is aided by an earnest cowpoke, an emotionally cruel benefactor, a clever cook, and the scheming Madam Ah Toy.  In being manipulated and learning to manipulate, she finds a way out of servitude and into great wealth, but learns what her ambition and stubbornness wreak.  Is Lin the Madam’s daughter?

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Concubine of Gold Mountain

Genre:
Women's
Ethnic
Historical
Multicultural

Blurb/Logline
In the first novel of this series, Empress of Gold Mountain, we followed Lin on her journey from life as indentured Texas servant to exclusive San Francisco consort and finally powerful Los Angeles business owner.  In this combined sequel/prequel, Concubine of Gold Mountain, we meet her descendant, Lila, who is juggling career and relationships in the boundless post-feminist era; as well as her ancestor, Ah Ling, who is weighing equally opposing forces in a time when women had no choices.

A Shared-World Anthology in which each stand-alone story take place within the same 48-hour framework.  Set in the near future, each deals with a different aspect of an invasion from another dimension, all of which take place once every ten thousand years on earth.  A common character, The Salesman, appears in each story and plays a major role in the outcome of each conflict. - Edited by Edward McKeown and Mike Hanson

Genre:
Horror
Anthology

Blurb/Logline
Every 10,000 years comes the Sha'Daa, a two-day stretch of time when evil is permitted to cross the dimensional barriers and attack the Earth.  This shared-world anthology featuring a dozen top-ranked Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror writers is a collection of exciting and frightening tales which run the gamut from true soul-shaking horror to a wry and ironic look at the end of reality as we know it.  Unlikely heroes in unusual locations around the globe battle not only for their own survival, but also for all of humanity. 

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Genre:
Science Fiction

Blurb/Logline

Reluctant privateer Robert Fenaday searches the stars for his lost love.  He’s joined by the genetically engineered assassin, Shasti Rainhell, whose cold perfection masks a dark past.  Both are blackmailed by government spymaster, Mandela, into a suicidal mission to a doomed planet.  Leading a team of scientists and soldiers, they must unravel the mystery of a planet’s death before an ancient force reaches out to destroy them.

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Fearful Symmetry

Genre:
Science Fiction

Blurb/Logline

Having survived the nightmare world of Enshar, Robert Fenaday abandons privateering and his quest for his lost wife to begin life anew with the genetically engineered assassin, Shasti Rainhell.  But spymaster Mandela has other plans for the pair, intrigue and murder on Shasti’s home planet of Olympia.  Fenaday must fight his way to Shasti, facing her deadly creator and an alien mystery that could destroy the Confederacy.

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Points of Departure

Genre:
Science Fiction

Blurb/Logline
Robert Fenaday must drive the starship Sidhe across uncharted space to rescue his wife before war breaks out. But can he keep his command from mutiny and his former lover Shasti Rainhell from murder as well?

Genre:
Science Fiction

Blurb/Logline
Deep under the ice of Antarctica lies a city, lost for millions of years, and now discovered by a research team.  It clearly can't be of human design.  Who built it?  Where were they from, and where did they go?  Sapiosaurus takes the reader on a journey of discovery and wonder as an ancient civilization is revealed.

* Under Review

Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Spiritual

Blurb/Logline
Amanda McGee faces two challenges in life.  First, she must reconcile how a stranger got invited to her dinner table and then into her heart.  At the same time, the family's small-town newspaper must decide how to report on a third miracle cure at the local hospital.  Love and miracles?  They happen every day.  Just ask Amanda.

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Mackenzie's Universe

Genre:
Contemporary Romance

Blurb/Logline
Joe Mackenzie is living the good life near Houston.  He's doing exactly what he wants to do.  He's living exactly where he wants to live.  He credits his good fortune to an uncanny ability to get what he wants when he wants it ... whenever he wants it.  Now he wants to know how.

During his search for an answer, Mackenzie meets three women.  He's attracted to them all--Alexis, the owner of a weekly newspaper in the Texas hill country; Lorraine, a wealthy ranch owner who works at the newspaper for kicks while looking for a man; and Kate, the high-powered president of a Houston public relations firm.  As Mac works frantically to bring his life-long fantasy relationship to fruition, a life-threatening tumor in Alexis turns his world—and his fantasy--upside down.

*Under Review

Fort Mackenzie

A newspaper article about the camp leads a savage man bent on revenge to stalk the group.  As Christina’s heart is stirred by the affections of trooper Dan Cosentino, he leaves on a patrol that turns deadly before the cavalry can come to the rescue.

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Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Erotica

Blurb/Logline
After an anonymous seduction in a Corpus Christi hotel, an architect is motivated to seek sensual encounters during his travels across Texas.  But, instead, the three women he meets in some of the state’s best hotels teach him about trust, commitment and love.

*Under Review

Genre:
Literary
Erotica
Psychological Drama
Romance
Stream of Consciousness

Blurb/Logline
A man's wife uncovers her alcoholic husband's erotic affair with a girl his daughter's age.  After losing his family, his career, and his lover, he finds himself struggling in a hostile environment in a vain attempt to escape into a world of dive-bars and booze on his way to a date with rock-bottom.

Blurb/Logline
A young man who works at a butcher store becomes infatuated with a beautiful raven-haired stranger named Symantha who buys extraordinary amounts of beef each month from his store.   She seems to know things about him he can’t explain.  Two men who come looking for her eventually concede they are federal law enforcement officers acting on an extradition request from France.   Instead of apprehending her when she returns, they attempt to execute her.   Ryan kills one of them as the other flees with Symantha.  

Ryan is taken into custody by the Salt Lake City Police only to discover the two federal agents he thought he was working with were impostors.  On the verge of being charged with murder, he begins his own investigation of the shooting and slowly is lead from strange clues to suspect that Symantha is a part demon apocalyptic visionary, attempting to usher in the End of Days, and may be using him to further her plans.

Genre:
Horror
Sci-Fi

Blurb/Logline

For Chris Walker, introverted teenager, life in rural New York is mundane until Courtney Harris moves in next door.  After Courtney returns from vacationing in the Adirondack Mountains, Chris discovers that her harrowing escape from an animal attack has left something behind.  Overcome with preternatural sense, Courtney understands the metamorphosis within her body will soon turn her into a werewolf.
 
The night of the full moon, Chris witnesses the transformation of Courtney into a werewolf, and he knows both their lives have changed forever.  When Courtney disappears without a trace, Chris follows his heart and instinct to rescue her from the people holding her prisoner.

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Soul Mates

Genre:
Horror
Thriller
Preternatural

Blurb/Logline

Another kiss--from the soul takers, dark beautiful creatures with the appearance of humans who live off the souls of the ones they kiss.  Something darker has come to claim them, one by one.

Evil appears in Mantua, destroying everything Jordan ever knew.  The malevolence draws the soul takers back to the sleepy New York State village to claim them in its embrace.  Reunited with Damien and the other soul takers, Jordan must find a way to stop the evil before it destroys the town.  And she knows that, to stop the creatures, she must become one of them.

Soul Takers

Genre
Horror
Thriller
Immortals

Blurb/Logline

At fifteen, Jordan is tired of feeling smothered, isolated, and hidden away, when she meets the mysterious Psyche.  Anxious to leave behind the secrets that plague her past, she runs away with the Soul Takers, unaware of their mystery.  Unlike vampires, the Soul Takers don’t take blood of their victim but instead seize the “Light” of the soul during a deep, drawing kiss.  One kiss was all it took for Jordan to be enraptured by Psyche.  She soon learns that there was more than just a kiss resting beyond his lips.  The Soul Takers reveal more dangers than she bargains for. 

*Under Review

Schoenewolf, Gerald
Therapy

Genre:
Thriller
Psychological Drama

When Bill is assigned his first patient by the institute he is attending, he finds that she is both suicidal and a multiple personality.  She is more than he can handle and he ends up trying to heal her and love her at the same time.